Riverside schools should keep their traditional calendar that starts school in late August and ends in mid-June for the next three years, a panel is suggesting.

Most surrounding districts start school the second week of August and end the first semester before winter break. Students start summer at the end of May or first week of June, depending on breaks.

In Riverside Unified School District, students come back from winter break three weeks before the end of first semester. High school teachers said they have to spend a lot of time reviewing before final exams.

Last week, a calendar committee proposed to the school board both a traditional calendar and an early-start calendar that would have given students three weeks in late December into early January.

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